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Mar 2015 · 762
Divine Right
lX0st Mar 2015
One thing is imperative
That you understand:
I will bow to no God,
and kneel to no man.
I am sure and steady
On these feet where I stand,
And any faith I possess
Is placed in my hands.
Mar 2015 · 27.2k
High
lX0st Mar 2015
Doctors say
Once you reach the age of maturity
You will cease to grow;
But how does that explain
The heights that I reach,
The expansion of my heart,
Or the width of my smile
When I'm wrapped in your arms?
It doesn't.
It is your love.
Mar 2015 · 574
April Showers
lX0st Mar 2015
I have accepted change
And that everything will change
And I've accepted that our feelings
Won't forever be the same.

But I've learned you shan't focus
On keeping the flower alive
But rather watch as it blooms
And lay it to rest when it dies.
Mar 2015 · 4.5k
Renewal
lX0st Mar 2015
I've never felt so tranquil
In my very own skin;
I would shed it
And grow another
Just to feel this way again.
Mar 2015 · 608
Sunroof
lX0st Mar 2015
I've waited countless nights
For the sun to rise
And finally found the light
When I searched in your eyes.

Your love shone so bright
It sent my soul awry
And though day turns to night
I've never felt so alive.
I've never loved a sunset so much.
Mar 2015 · 696
Gardens
lX0st Mar 2015
Rose petal lips
A velvety kiss
How sweet it tastes
To be rooted in this
Breathtaking bliss
Mar 2015 · 2.8k
Enchanted
lX0st Mar 2015
I envy the light that lays upon your skin
And illuminates the love that you veil deep within.
An intoxicating laugh carried through the breeze
From the liquored lips I so thirst to seize.
Such enchantment brings me to my knees
My heart at your whim, my soul at ease.
Feb 2015 · 891
Harmony
lX0st Feb 2015
With the drumming of your heartbeat
Our lips could write a symphony

Our laughter chimes about us
The sound of love contagious
Such beautiful music.
Feb 2015 · 775
Heart / Heels
lX0st Feb 2015
Deemed clumsy my entire life
I would have never guessed
That I should stumble upon
Something so worth the fall
That I would eagerly dive
Heart first into the ground
If I was certain that
It would be your arms
Enveloping me into you
Once I came to.
Feb 2015 · 959
Walls Afire
lX0st Feb 2015
It was as if the curtains split
And caused these flames to ignite
And the lucid beckoning in your eyes
Glistened fiercely in the light
The smoke threatens to seep in
And though try, it might
Our fire blazes through these shadows
And won't retreat without a fight
I love you.
Feb 2015 · 1.4k
Polaris
lX0st Feb 2015
And even when my eyes are closed
Your light dances behind my lids
Illuminating the path to your open heart
My North Star guiding me home
Feb 2015 · 1.9k
Fortuity
lX0st Feb 2015
Oh, sweet serendipity
How you've been so good to me
Afraid of fate, I used to be
Now my arms rest openly
Feb 2015 · 590
Incendiary
lX0st Feb 2015
If someone asked me to describe

What it was like to hear

My name escape

From the sweet, sweet lips
That I've always dreamt about

I would tell them

That it was as if

You wrapped explosives

Tight around my heart

And with every whispered word

Every delicate touch

Every loving kiss

A very small piece 

Would blissfully burst 

And heat my entire body

Until I was so warm with love

That I truly believed I was melting
I melt for you.
Feb 2015 · 1.5k
Espera
lX0st Feb 2015
A sweet, lingering kiss
Please love, just one more
I can't bear to watch
As you reach for the door

Lay down with me
Please stay, my dear
For I so loathe to wonder
Why you must always disappear
lX0st Feb 2015
Why the hell am I still awake?
And why does your kiss feel so fake?
And why did my heart have to break?
Was it mine to give, or yours to take?
Feb 2015 · 1.8k
Uptown
lX0st Feb 2015
The faux heart on your sleeve
Goes incredibly well
With your arrogant grin
And hands full of hubris.

I find it distasteful
That you spit your highbrow
From a tongue drenched in chagrin
And lips lacking complacence.
Money talks and fools listen.
Feb 2015 · 381
Ashes
lX0st Feb 2015
The sun rises within you
And warms you to the bone.
It escapes through your lucid smile,
One I long to call my own.

But the words 'caution: fragile'
Are engraved into your skin.
And though I wish to save you,
I've no idea where to begin.

You see, these words are leaking out
And dispose of them, I must.
But if I drop on you my heart,
I fear you'll turn to dust.
Feb 2015 · 419
Rounds
lX0st Feb 2015
Tell me, love, is it worth the fight,
To return only to you each night?

Tell me, love, is it worth the pain,
To examine your face and discover disdain?

And tell me, love, when I say goodbye,
Will you even care to ask me why?
Feb 2015 · 590
Hypothermia
lX0st Feb 2015
A wave of snow surrounds me
With a sea of ice below me
It's no wonder they never found me
Winter winds don't die down slowly
Feb 2015 · 864
Sannine
lX0st Feb 2015
I succumbed to the plea
In those lovely brown eyes
Not because I'm lonely
Or afraid of goodbyes
But because I've known valleys
And with you, I'm so high
Once concealed by the shadows
Now embraced by the sky
Jan 2015 · 1.0k
Edges
lX0st Jan 2015
I do not still love him
I just love that it still hurts
Because pain is the only thing you feel
When you've got nothing but frayed nerves.
Jan 2015 · 592
Cognizance & Captain
lX0st Jan 2015
And once I've drunk my weight in ***
Maybe I'll know why you're gone
Or
Maybe I won't know my name
And maybe that's a better thing
Jan 2015 · 688
Mercury
lX0st Jan 2015
The blood that we bleed
So insignificant, it seems
But after these vacant hours
It is our souls that are freed.
Though lost at best, we must still proceed.
Jan 2015 · 572
Rising
lX0st Jan 2015
Eyes too afraid to see
A voice too scared to speak
My hands chained together
Legs far, far too weak

Waiting for secure arms
That, around me, make me greater
You have but strengthened my soul
My lover, my savior
^ ≠ religion
Jan 2015 · 866
Amnesty
lX0st Jan 2015
I stumble as if intoxicated
But reek of agony instead.
Not even the strongest liquor
Could rinse you from my head.
While thinning the blood in my veins
My heart pounds to what you said.
Though I would rather you love me,
You would much rather be dead.
Praying, praying, praying this drink puts me to bed.
Jan 2015 · 1.2k
Cirque du Soleil
lX0st Jan 2015
Let me make you wonder why
You'd scream any other name.

Let me prove to you that
There's no fun in being tame.
What an entertaining game.
Jan 2015 · 958
Invierno
lX0st Jan 2015
Do you remember December?
How the cold made my hands tremor?
Or how it made your scent linger?
We used lips to warm fingers.
Or the whining of the wind?
With every light dimmed?
I yearned for your skin.
Our smiles felt endless
And I was left breathless.
I love this weather.
lX0st Jan 2015
I know what love is
I don't want it.

I know what it's like
To be caressed by the lips
That exhale sweet lies.

I know what it's like
To hold the hand of the man
That always lets go.

I know what it's like
To drift asleep in his arms
Only to wake up alone.

I know what love is
I know what it should be
I know how it treats me
I don't want it.
Ask me what my BAC is...
Jan 2015 · 443
Acrid
lX0st Jan 2015
Peel back my layers
Like the skin on your fingers
And trace the scars
You've etched into my veins.

And grab hold of my hair
While I spit up your name
And the cries of the girls
Who have done just the same.
Tell me, lover, have you ever tasted such pain?
Jan 2015 · 737
Reaping
lX0st Jan 2015
Don't chalk me up as a bad habit
When I'm the only one that kept you sober.
And how dare you lick
The perfume from your lips
Moments before you kiss mine.
Devour your drink, lover;
Remind us who you are.
And when your eyes gloss over
Don't chalk me up as just a bad habit
When I'm the only one that kept you sober.
You reap what you sow.
Jan 2015 · 1.1k
Queen
lX0st Jan 2015
I take pride in this heart of stone,
Even if it means being alone.
While fools revel in the idea of "our",
I will recline and enjoy my power.
And though lust is a meal I often devour,
You'll mean nothing to me by the end of the hour.
Jan 2015 · 392
лед
lX0st Jan 2015
The sun has yet
To prove it's purpose
When it hardly compares
To the warmth of your smile.
But who am I
To interpret such heat?
I've nothing but ice
In my veins.
Jan 2015 · 474
Restless
lX0st Jan 2015
Who would've thought
That the rising of your chest
As you take each breath
Would keep me awake?

The sound of your pulse
Holding you here with me
Makes me thankful
To go without sleep.
No idea what this is or where it came from.
Dec 2014 · 1.0k
Forest
lX0st Dec 2014
The pressure of your lips
The dirt on my tongue..
It all tasted the same.
I never knew what it would be like
To feel hollow
Until my knees crumbled
And the floor became my home.
The wind was never
A good friend of mine;
It only whispered under the sun
But whipped when I was bare.
And I'm starting to wonder
If that foreshadowed
The way our hearts
Are always in the wrong place
At the wrong time.
Dec 2014 · 805
Absolute
lX0st Dec 2014
Listen, I'm drunk
So disregard what I'm saying
But after the night you said goodbye
The sun hasn't risen since.
And the darkness is getting old.
Dec 2014 · 1.3k
Seek
lX0st Dec 2014
You only show your face
When it's hidden by the night,
And I seem to be on
An insatiable search
For some sort of sunrise.
Ready or not..
Nov 2014 · 2.0k
Lights, Camera...
lX0st Nov 2014
The many roles you play
You hate yourself in the day
But the liquor makes it all ok.
Pour up.
Nov 2014 · 18.0k
Deuteronomy
lX0st Nov 2014
I was blessed with a smile that could convince you of anything,
But cursed with a tongue that could never make you stay.
oh, how I hate you
Nov 2014 · 926
Maimed
lX0st Nov 2014
I searched for your name
At the end of a bottle
But found mutilated skin
And shards in a pile.
I'll keep looking.
Nov 2014 · 17.9k
Lost at Sea
lX0st Nov 2014
I'm drowning in your moans
Every word that melts from your lips
Floods the room about us
Suffocating me into believing
That I would be satisfied
Spending my last moments
Staring into your eyes
Breathless
Nov 2014 · 2.8k
Bricks
lX0st Nov 2014
A year it has been
A year it has taken me
To reconstruct this wall
Even higher than before.
In one night it has taken you
No more than a smile
To send me back to work
Brick by brick.
How do you do it every time..
Oct 2014 · 1.1k
Deconstruction
lX0st Oct 2014
Your lips fell to mine
Like a building barreling down
Destroying what was left
Of my good judgement
And replacing it with a massive hole
That only you could fill.
And the walls continued to crumble..
Oct 2014 · 536
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
lX0st Oct 2014
To hope is to wish
And I won't put your name in a bottle
But I'd beg a god that doesn't exist
Just to wake to your smile.
This sounds so cheesy.
Oct 2014 · 943
I Can Explain
lX0st Oct 2014
Never alone
But always lonely
I've nothing to hang onto
So you never hold me
Dripping from your hands
With a futile disgust
We're dreaming of love
Yet give into lust
Maybe that's why we're all lonely.
Oct 2014 · 677
Intruder
lX0st Oct 2014
Concentrate on my voice
Though it's barely alive
And listen for the girl
You've trapped inside.
A house with locked doors
And you've swallowed every key.
With all the windows closed
To drown out all her screams.
You hold my hand each day
But haunt my every dream.
I guess that's more like a nightmare.
Oct 2014 · 5.4k
Deceit
lX0st Oct 2014
Your lies could stretch for miles
And I'd still hang on your every word
As if your voice was a buoy
In my sea of senselessness.  
I long to love you
The way you should be loved,
But I'm not sure how you'd handle truth
If it were to wrap around your tongue.
Oct 2014 · 810
R.I.P.
lX0st Oct 2014
You kissed my eyes shut
And laid me to sleep,
Now this landfill of hope
Is a wasteland of dreams.
And your words are never as true as they seem.
Sep 2014 · 1.0k
Gibberish
lX0st Sep 2014
The horn of the midnight train is the only thing loud enough to interrupt my thoughts of you every night..
And the 2am train
And the 3am train
And you're all I think about
And I can't sleep
And I hate you
I wonder how loud the train is
When you're standing right in front of it.
Drunken rant of a poem about how you ruin my life.
Sep 2014 · 1.4k
Stick a Needle in My Eye
lX0st Sep 2014
I promise not to ask
How drunk you were
When you told me you missed me
If you promise not to ask
About the crimson river
In your kitchen.
Cross my heart, hope to die..
Sep 2014 · 1.1k
Hoarse
lX0st Sep 2014
You make it impossible to fall asleep
And agonizing to stay awake.
Every miserable moment that passes
Helps me to understand
That I'm no closer to finding out
Where you've gone
Than I am to finding my voice.
Please come back.
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